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| author | nicolargo <nicolas@nicolargo.com> | 2019-11-02 13:42:24 +0100 |
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| committer | nicolargo <nicolas@nicolargo.com> | 2019-11-02 13:42:24 +0100 |
| commit | cc856941a836c3ff5df73f5abed7b55e01be573d (patch) | |
| tree | 5060cacd277c55d90084e916a2e469e86067a59f | |
| parent | c71bef2cd73562f3813f9f46f9aee09f4c7e346a (diff) | |
Update documentation.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/aoa/load.rst | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/aoa/ps.rst | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/man/glances.1 | 2 |
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/aoa/load.rst b/docs/aoa/load.rst index 30eb2e38..ef1827ab 100644 --- a/docs/aoa/load.rst +++ b/docs/aoa/load.rst @@ -18,9 +18,12 @@ Be aware that Load on Linux, BSD and Windows are different things, high `load on BSD`_ does not means high CPU load. The Windows load is emulated by the PsUtil lib (see `load on Windows`_) -Glances gets the number of CPU core to adapt the alerts. -Alerts on load average are only set on 15 minutes time period. -The first line also displays the number of CPU core. +Glances gets the number of CPU core (displayed on the first line) to adapt +the alerts. Alerts on load average are only set on 15 minutes time period. + +Thresholds are computed by dividing the 5 and 15 minutes average load per +CPU(s) number. For example, if you have 4 CPUs and the 5 minutes load is +1.0, then the warning threshold will be set to 2.8 (0.7 * 4 * 1.0). Legend: diff --git a/docs/aoa/ps.rst b/docs/aoa/ps.rst index 4a5599f5..d96da721 100644 --- a/docs/aoa/ps.rst +++ b/docs/aoa/ps.rst @@ -48,7 +48,8 @@ Columns display If Irix/Solaris mode is off, the value is divided by logical core number -``MEM%`` % of MEM used by the process +``MEM%`` % of MEM used by the process (RES divided by + the total RAM you have) ``VIRT`` Virtual Memory Size The total amount of virtual memory used by the @@ -57,6 +58,8 @@ Columns display It includes all code, data and shared libraries plus pages that have been swapped out and pages that have been mapped but not used. + + Most of the time, this is not a useful number. ``RES`` Resident Memory Size The non-swapped physical memory a process is @@ -74,7 +77,8 @@ Columns display - ``S``: interruptible sleep (waiting for an event) - ``D``: uninterruptible sleep (usually I/O) - ``Z``: defunct ("zombie") process - - ``T``: traced/stopped by job control signal + - ``T``: traced by job control signal + - ``t``: stopped by debugger during the tracing - ``X``: dead (should never be seen) ``R/s`` Per process I/O read rate in B/s @@ -85,6 +89,8 @@ Columns display pressing on the ``'/'`` key ========================= ============================================== +Source: Thanks to the Peteris Ņikiforovs's blog. + Process filtering ----------------- diff --git a/docs/man/glances.1 b/docs/man/glances.1 index 6f746edc..efefe0a9 100644 --- a/docs/man/glances.1 +++ b/docs/man/glances.1 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" Man page generated from reStructuredText. . -.TH "GLANCES" "1" "Oct 13, 2019" "3.1.4_BETA" "Glances" +.TH "GLANCES" "1" "Nov 02, 2019" "3.1.4_BETA" "Glances" .SH NAME glances \- An eye on your system . |